Community Payload Race strategy

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This article is about Community Payload Race strategy.

General strategy

• Remember that stopping the other from pushing their cart is just as important as pushing your own.
• There is a limit to how fast the cart can go, once you reach that point focus on stopping the other team.
• Remember that you can use your cart as cover.
• A well placed sentry can easily diminish the health of the enemy cartpushers and help secure a victory.
• Slowly killing the enemy is not a wise decision because the Payload can heal nearby team members.

Class-specific strategy

 Scout

• Remember you can push the cart twice as fast.

 Soldier

• Use the Pain Train to push the cart twice as fast.

 Pyro

• The cart acts as a mobile Dispenser, crouch jump on top of the cart and lay waste to the other team.

 Demoman

• Use your Sticky Bombs to perform area-denial on the cart.
• Use the Pain Train to push the cart twice as fast.

 Heavy

• The cart acts as a mobile Dispenser, crouch jump on top of the cart and lay waste to the other team.

 Engineer

• Place Sentry Guns along the enemies track to slow there advance.

• A well placed Sentry Gun can both help your team advance and slow the opposing team.

 Medic

• Stick in the back to minimize being killed while healing.

 Sniper

• Snipers can take advantage of the large amounts of players swarming around the Payload and pick them off one by one due to the predictable path of the cart; keep in mind that any non-lethal hits can be healed by the cart in a short period of time.
• You can also utilize the high-density of players on the Payload by saturating the enemy with Jarate; the damage amplification of the device will assist your team in clearing the cart.
• Use the Machina's piercing shot to take out 2 or more enemy players when they are pushing the Payload; players generally cluster around the cart, making piercing shots an effective method of weakening and/or stopping the opposition.

 Spy

• Scout ahead to check for enemy sentry nests.